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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1843.
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10 TfiE COAL KIXERlj OF ENGLAND , SCOTLAXD , AND WALES . PJ 2 IA 0 W SXATES . —2 f o Jtmrn&n 'being can any langei fionbi that we are grusning under one of the most slavish systems that aver -existed under the son ; let us , therefore , firmly resolve to unite ourselves-into one jrand ¦ odety for the purpose of relieving ourselves from the dire oppression ot to * Coal Pit Kings . Experience tea * bes us that we can only accomplish this by one general union throughout the -whole ' United Kingdom . V > e have seen that all previous onions have failed in accomplishing an efficient amelioration ol our condltien , limply because wb never carried ont the principle to the
¦ extent we should have dona "We are determined not "to be goaded on Is the manner we have bees , to strangle onr society in iU infancy by a premature strike . Such a measure at this time "would be only . satisfying the souI ' j desire of onr oppressor ! without accomplishing anything beneficial to tm , lmt , on the contrary , BVamp the wholesome embryo of a union that , by jadicion 8 management , "will ere long make the tyrants tremble at their own imbecility . They are not content ¦ with robbing the poor pit slaves of the Tjne and Wear of , £ 30 , 0 !> 0 ; bat they are fining them for the most trivial alleged offences , so that sometimes s collier when he hu performed a hard day ' s work , finds himself in debt at night
In some of the bonds there are seventeen clauses sub * jecting the minor to a Una of 2 s . 6 < J _ It ia impossible for any man to steer clear of them alL When his corve cornea to bank if it does not please , they can fine the hewer 2 s . 6 d . or 7 a . as they may fhink proper . They can compel the men to work ; but they , in return , are xaA compelled to pay any wagea . No , no , they can keepitall from U » em if they fMn * proper . Are those jobberies to "be continued with impunity 7 We advise . yon to become determined that they shall not ; but be firm , be patient , or else you will rivet the chains to ? our shackles .
Tt is better to saSer pattenfly for a * eawn , and ttien have liberty , than be gulled as we have been before . They are all united to a man to oppress the poor . Why should not we take a leaf out of their book 1 If union be beneficial to them , Union csnmA be tnJTni ^ rt to / us , and passing events daily teach that we uevfe ? BhaH have justice done us , until -we are firmly united ia one solid bond throughout the whole Empire . United we stand , divided we falL On account of the rapid and extensive increase of
the Miners' "Plulsntfcropleal Society in the principal joining districts throughout England and Scotland , it ia resolved to hold a general delegate meeting or all grades of mJaers , whether iron , Jead , or coal , at Mr . Hamlet Booth's , Kose * nd Crown , Shields New Boad , New . « stla-Tipan- ^ y e , on Monday , May Xat , 1843 ; and , as business of vast importance will come before that meeting , the brethren already joined earnestly request that every colliery and mine in the TJnited Kingdom , who are weary and heavy laden , , will send a delegate to fch «* . meeting .
Fellow-men , be determtoad . ' —do sot be apathetic any longer ; and , spaniel-like , lick the hand that smites you . If yon will join us , no power on earth can prevent us from getting our rights . We have only to agree amongst ourselves opon a plan to pursues . If we do not help ourselves , we cannot expect other people to help us . Miners from Wales , Lancashire , and Staffordshire can come to Newcastle by the packets from Liverpool at very little expence . Colliers , arouse!—be up and be doing ; the harvest ia really ready . Men ! as yon valne your lives , you are bound to come ; for your tyrannical drivers are determined to have wealth , and that yojr must work for it Yes , a it be at the expence of your lives , or of the ¦ virtue of your wives and daughters . If there be any colliery that cannot send a delegate , they can call a meeting , write a letter to me , at James Sinclair ' s , newsagent , 25 , High Bridge , Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; and it Will be thankfully received .
We will appoint missionaries to attend any part of the country , if those places which have not yet joined the society wish us to send th&m . We sincerely hope and irast thai this call will not be in rain to the districts in the South . Xet there not be one district without a delegate at that meeting ; and you will greatly oblige , Tonrt truly , , In the cause of freedom , Davjd Swallow , General Secretary . ShrDcliff , near Durham , April 17 th , 1843 .
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TO THE CHABTIST PUBLICHow to get the Charter ! How to get the land ! How to get machinery . ' Upon She necessity of establishing & National Benefit Society , as part and parcel of our organization , for the purpose of preventing our brethren suffering hunger and ¦ n * tftrint >» fox gie Charter ' s sake , and our feelings from being wounded with accounts , such as that from { Jsteahead , of Cockbnra , the Chartist , begging alms opon the bridge .
TO THE EDITOB OJ THB SOBTBEXH STAB , Sib , —It is with great pleasure 2 perceive yourself directing attention to the question of the land , and a X 8 W organisation , and with fleHght I see Hx . O'Connor , It about to submit * plan for locating the people upon tbe land , as part of our Intare operations , and otgaoUution . I nneerely hope that the cry ot" Socialism , " -which gams ignorant members of our own body , as well as < Ies 3 gnliig inaves , and pretended CharQsts , may feel inclined , for their own peculiar purpose * , to set up ,
will not deter the mainlwdy of omr fellows from availing themselve s of s plan that every step we take in enr ¦ political struggle renders the more necessary . Bift whilst we * re about amending our organia ition , and extending our operations , let us , as far as within wile * , make that jlanperfeet ; there is a gap to fill up between us and onr location upon the land , that gap is the time of Mala and troubles , in o * r straggle to obtain * living , ana ara a bins -per week to place in the fund that Is to oelp us on to the land ; this time must be provided Ior , and . as far as possible ; its trialB alleviated , sot by the chante penny of a f teling heart ,
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bnt by a permanent fund , to which all who have a heart , and can spare a penny , *> vill readily subscribe , and as we are in future to avoid the cannon ' * mouth , the liotfs paw , and the Leaguer ' s trap , all will be able to subscribe for these saving purposes . We must ; no longer leave onr members to the tender mercies of prejudiced employers , tyrant landlords , and' money-grub bing shopkeepers ; but endeavour to unite them in one great National Benefit Society , having for its object *^^^—^^ . . a ^
their protection against forced Idleness , and consequent poverty , tyrant task-masters , and their masters , the tyranny of magistrates , and the Government , for locating our members upon the land , or otherwise profitably employing them , and by all these means , and the increased power it will invest us with , being brought continually to bear upon the ruling faction , compel them to accede to the demand of the people for their long withheld political rights , by the enactment of the People ' s Charter .
Having once made a movement upon the land , we could soon avail ourselves of the most improved machinery ( some of which will , no doubt , be for sale at any pr ice in a few years , ] and become a party in point of -wealth , upon aa equal footing witk the boasting manufacturers . But my fellows , —A well-arranged National Benefit Society is the only plan that will thoroughly meet our present wants and wishes . I therefore beg of you to give this subject your whole study ; and I would beg respectfully to suggest to our zealous , untiring chieftain , the necessity of making his plan a National Benefit Society , embodying all the objects I have above named ,
that we may not have many funds , and many calls upon the people , but one fund for the several purposes , one set of officers , one set of collectors ; this will conduce to the expedition of business ; our General Secretary , if he be a man of business , a man who will work , he can , with a little help frem the Executive Committee , or Council , perform the duties of such a secretary , which would be consistent with economy ; our lecturers , too , could advocate the whole plan as easily as a part ; and I doubt not , when snob a plan is agreed upon at a Convention elected by the people , that the millions -would quickly enroll themselves under it Gracchus .
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* These errors were in the manuscript . The latter one was altered ia our Second Edition , on re-examation of the sum total .
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THE GOTEKNMENT FACTORY BILL , 1 m the « ar ] y part of the discussion on this most important measure , a daily contemporary , by no means remarkable for his delicacy of opposition to to the measures generally of the present Government , or for bis hesitancy in denouncing every thing of Tory origin as compared with Whig productions , because so satisfied of the importance of this measure to the real interests of the conn try , that .
after reviewing the opposition it was likely to encounter from the fanaticism of High Chorea , on the one hand , and of dissent on the other , he concluded by expressing his hope that , if these two mi 8 oMevoaB parties could not be induced to lay aside in some degree their folly , all moderate and rational men would at once come to the aid of Government and take the Bill in its present Bhape rather than not have it at all . We are most happy to Bee this excellent advioe to some extent acted acted on ; though not , we think , so largely
as it ought to be . Hitherto whenever the people en masre have been appealed vto , and have spoken on the matter , they have held the language of rationality and sense . They have pointed out to the Government the objectionable parts of the Bill and have suggested the means of it being madeiair and equi able ; but they have not , like Mr . E . Bajnes , Jun ., come to the conclusion , that the one thins TO BB AUtED AT 13 NOT TO AMEND THE BILL , B 0 T TO g et bid op it . This is the style of oratory of a few of Neddy ' s patrons among the tub-thumpers . They
have doubtless had their commands from the green-curtained pews ; and Neddy takes his cue in all readiness and reverence . His lectures are dealt oat with an impartialness that does him credit . Firat , Lord Whabkcliffe is honoured by his Braying , next The Parentfl of Sunday School Children , and now the B , 9 V . Dr . Reed is condescendingly admitted to a share of his benign notice . Neddt is absolutely in fits and agonies about Lord Jobh Rtjssell ' b resolutions . Sir James Gbahax and the Times might have been excused for their
impertinence in presuming to thruBt education on the people . Bu » for Lord Johnthe very breath of Whig nostrils—to play this shabby game ! to gbre notice of resolutions which must expo&e , in all its nakedness , the filthy character of the dissenting Mercurial opposition ! For Lord John to do this ! To take the Tory serpent by the tail , and exhibit it—a very rod of Aaron ! And to do so without leave asked , either of Neddy or the tab-thumpers ! Oh ! horrible ! naughty , naughty , Lord John ! 0 , fie i
Do bnt hear how virtuously Nbddt does rebuke the peccant Lord ; Bee how he flourishes the birch as it descends upon his noble breech : — " The danger is extreme . And where , in these circumstances , lies our only hope f It lieB in union the most per / eft , and in £ FF 0 X { the mott unceasing , among all the friends of religious liberty . u , nothing can be conceived more calculated to destroy that union , and to put an end to that effort , than Lord John RuEsell ' s resolutions . Aye , and paradoxical as it may sound , their danger is just in proportion to their merit , "
Faith ! Neddt , there ' s nothing paradoxical at all in it . The rotten cause of Mammon to which you and your crew are all devoted can never suffer from anything but merit ; save so far as the suicidal consequences of your own acts visit you . There is merit in Lord John's resolutions . They go , if honestly adopted , to make the Bill everything which an honest man could wish ; hence your hostility .
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" The discussion of Lord John Bussell ' s Resolutions would divert the friends of Religious Liberty from the urgentand indispensible duty Of opposing with all their might the dangerous attack on their liberties involved in Sir James Graham ' s Bill . If this were a light matter , I would make a comparison which our Country Gentlemen would understand better than they understandvthe principles of RelU giouB Liberty : I would say that these Resolutions will have the same effect as the trailing of a herring across the fox ' s track , which baffles the spent of the dogs , and . perhaps sends them after that which , if they come up With it , proves duly" to he a worthless herring , whilst the real game has made bis escape . " ;
How provoking of Lord John 1 Thus to foil the scent of the pious pack" ! and with a herring too ! the wasteful one ; not to think of the soup which might have come from it ! Mark too , how well Neddy knows the character of his associates and patrons . The " pack" ! what an admirable idea ! The hungry curs—howling after their piey , the helpleBB poor , with whom they see another " big dog" preparing to make off . O ! that herring ! ( H ) erring John what oau you think of I ! Bui Nbddt won't take the herring bait . ' He knows the smell of it , and is not to be caught ; it must be boiled not frizzled for him : —
" To suspend our opposition to a plan bo inourably bad as Sir James Graham ' s , in order to discuss another bo unintelligible as Lord John Russell ' s wou'd be an absolute waste of time , as well as the sacrifice of an opportunity never to be recalled . " Thus speaks Neddy through his shrewd medium , to the " pack "; while he thus continues his . objurgation of Lord John : — "Lord John Russell has not on this occasion entitled himself to the confidence of the friends of Religious Liberty—first , becanse he began by an illconsidered and most unfortunate defence of the Government measure ; and next , because he seems to intend to graft his own shoot upon their radically vicious stock . ' :
Thus , ia fact , through two mortal columns of his prison sheet does this unprincipled animal labour to induce the " pack" to refuse to have anything at all to do with Lord John Russell ' s resolntKfc , and to persevere in their vociferous rejection of the entire Bill . The consequence of this will be that the resolutions of Lord John , not being backed by the parties whose objections they are supposed to represent , will lose much of that imposing attitude which they might otherwise have taken and will command nothing of tbe reapeotful attention from
Government which they must otherwise have had . They will , in all probability be rejected . The Bill will be passed nearly in its present form , and the really honest and conscientious of the Dissenters , together with the mass of the rate-payers generally , will have to thank Neddy and the tub-thumpers for any inconveniences to which , in its operation , they may be subjected . Lord John ' s resolutions , as we have already said —if honestly conceived and adopted—are sufficient to render the Bill—in this department of it—all that an honest man could wish for . True the first
of Lord John ' s resolutions i 8 a little misty . He provides for an adequate representation of the rate-payers at the Board of Trustees ; but he does not say exactly what he would consider an adequate representation . We should interpret this to mean the election of the whole Board . But in any way let the ratepayers be adequately—fairly —represented , and , on that score , we are satisfied . He provides also that the Trustees shall elect their own Chairman ; thus doiDg away with the invidiousnesB of the respect paid to tbe clergyman , by making him perpetual chairman : indeed it does not necessarily follow from Lord John ' s resolutions that the clergyman shall be a trustee at aU .
"The third , fourth and fifth of Lord Join Russel ' s resolutions provide for the religious education of children of Churchmen , Dissenters and Roman Catholics , on principles which would secure to all a large amount of religious instruction without interfering with the peculiar opinions of any . According to this plan , tbe Holy Scriptures in the authorised version are to be read by and taught in these schools to all Protestant children , whether belonging to the Church or Dissenters , whilst a special provision is to be made for the instruction of Roman Catholic children wlJose parents object to the reading of tbe authorised version .
Nothing can be fairer than this . These resolutions likewise provide that children educated in the schools during the week , shall be allowed on the Sunday to attend any school and any place of worship their parents may think fit . And in order that Dissenters , when qualified , may not be excluded from teaching in these schools , they further provide that the religious instruction , except so far as the reading of the Sacred Scriptures is concerned , shall be given by the clergyman of the parish , or by some person appointed by him , to th « children belonging to the Established Church , and that it shall be given apart from tbe ordinary lessons ot the school . "
The eighth of Lord John ' s resolutions provides against that really objectionable clause which would draw a line of distinction between the British and Foreign , and other efficiently conducted Dissenting schools . There can certainly be no reason why a certificate should not be received as readily from a Wesleyau , or an Unitarian , or an Independent , or a New Jerusalem Bchool efficiently conducted , as from a British and Foreign , or a Roman Catholio school ; and Lord John ' s resolutions provide that this shall be so . "There is every reason to think that a measure of education , founded
on the principles asserted in the above resolution , would give general , it not universal satisfaction . " We regret much , therefore , to see the honest-minded and well-meaning Dissenters , of whom there are thousands—knowing nothing of the Biil but that which they are toldby Neddy , and the tub-thumpers , induced by these utterly unprincipled and dishonest leaders to <( run a-muck" at the whole Bill , instead of strengthening the hands of Lord John Russell for the carrying of these reasonable and proper
resotions . One good effect of this mad-dog-ism on the part of Dissenters is , that it has considerably qualified the harrassment of Government by High Church bigots . They have regained sense and coolness , as the others seem to lose ; and just for this reason : — because they see , as we do , in the bull-headedness of Dissenters the safety of the Church , dominancy which they desire . Hence , their opposition is diverted from the Bill , and turned to Lord John ' s resolutions , which they declare will render the Bill an unbearable curse .
So that poor Lord John and hi 3 * resolutious stand now between the two fires , while the Government Bill , in its original form , gets rid of one formidable source of opposition entirely , and is enabled to laugh at the other , from its divided weakness . Neddy is not far wrong , therefore , when he says : — " Let bo one be so thoughtless as to suppose that there is the remotest chance of those resolutions being carried . Lord John Russkll can no more carry his resolutions next month , than he can next month enter the Queen ' s Cabinet as Prime Minister . "
There can be no doubt that if Lord John Russell's resolutions had been well backed op by the Dissenters he would have carried them . The tone with which Sir J . Gbaham received them amounted , almost to a pledge to that effect . But W * th the ravings against them of Nbdby and the , tubthumpers \ while the Government can poir > . t Lord John to the fact that the parties on whose ' aebalf he purpots to act repudiate his resolut x ) u 8 is never likely to carry them .
The Bill will , we have no doubt , ' oe carried very much in its present form ; somew ' iiat modified and amended it may be . We hor ^ e , certainly , that Lord John Russell ' s eighth resolution will be embodied in it ; but it c ^ tainly ia in small danger from the idle raving for its entire rejection of Neddt and t * ie tub-thumpers . If it ¦ wexeBOjVrc should be inolined , with our contemporary , to say , " Les aII rational and moderate men come to the aid of the Government . " Let us have
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Education—without clerical ascendancy , if possible—but , in any case , let us have Education . And after all—supposing i \ should pass even in its present form-r-what is the mighty bugbear—so far as Education ia concerned , of whioh we have heard so much braying and thumping from Nbddt and his sleek-haired patrons ! The Spectator has a few words on the matter well put . We borrow them : —
" In order to estimate the value of the objections to the details of Sir James Graham ' s educational clauses , let us briefly enumerate their provisions . They go to establish schools under the management of a Local Board of TruateeB , subjected to the inspection of four-lay Inspectors , with a staff of assistant Sub-Inspectors , and to the control of the Educational Committee of the Council . The Local Board is to consist of the Clergyman and the Churchwardens of the district , ecc-officio Trustees ; and four other Trustees , two of whom must be
occupiers of Factories employing children , chosen by the distriot Justices of the Peace out of persons assessed at a certain sum to the poor , or out of those who have contributed a oertain proportional sum to the entire oost of the school . Every person Riving a site to a Bohool shall be one of the Trustees during his wnole life . This Board is tied down to oertain regulations for insuring due respect to the religious persuasions of the parents of children attending the schools . The Bible , and " ne other book of religion whatever , " ib to be taught to all the pupils :
instruction in the peculiar doctrines of the Church of England , " one hour in each day , " is to be given ; but scholars whose parents desire that they shall not be present at such instruction shall not be compelled to attend . The scholars are to attend the service of the Church oncea-dayon Sundays , unless the parents desire them not to do so , on the ground of religious objections . And the Educational Committee of the Privy Counoil are , through their Inspectors appointed by the Queen , that ia by her Minister , to watch over the observance of these regulations and enforce them .
These arrangemeats put the entire controul of this partial system of National Education in the hands of the Civil Government . A majority of the Local Trustees are appointed by the Justices of the Peace , who are appointed aud removable at pleasure by Government . The Inspectors are appointed by Government . The Educational Committee of of the Priyy Council have the power of checking every contravention of the regulations made to insure liberty of conscience . Sir Robert Peel's Government are endeavouring to put into the hands
of the Ministers of Education created by Lord Melbourne ' s Government the means of educating the people . The system of schools contemplated by the present Government Bill must be worked in the sense of the Ministers of the day ; and the Ministers of the day must conform to the sense of the House of Commons and its constituents . This , in the present advanced stage of public opinion , is no bad guarantee that the administration of the schools will not be tainted with a proselytizing or an intolerant spirit .
" But this approbation of the broad outline of the measurse is quite consistent with a desire that every thing in its details to which well-founded objections can be urged should be amended . All the objections of any plausibility oi weight that hare been urged against the Bill are in reality objections to details . They all resolve into apprehensions entertained by the Dissenters and liberal Churchmen that tbe measure may be perverted into a system of proselytiBm .
Regarding this measure , as it ought to be regarded with a total absence of all partisan feeling , and solely with a view to the effects it is calculated to produce upon society at large , we see no reason why the most zealous Churchman should object to Sir J . Graham ' s Bill , modified to meet the amendments suggested in Lord Joen Russell ' s resolutions ; or why , on ihe other hand the staunchest friend of civil and religious liberty should hesitate to support it . Nay , with regard to the objections urged against the constitution of the Local Boards
contemplated by the original bill , it does appear , that with Ministers so completely in the power of the House of Commons as the Minister of this country are—with soastituencies ia which the Dissenters are probably more powerful than they would be under a more extended franchise—with the growing feeling in favour of secular education , and an unfettered press—the control vested in tbe Committee of the Privy Council for Eduoation would be found sufficient to counteract any danger from that source . "
With these sentiments of the Spectator we entirely concur , and entreat that the people will see to it , that the honest and well-meaning of the dissenters through the whole country be not hood-winked by Nkddt and his " pack ; " that they have Lord John Russell's resolutions duly explained to them , and that they be entreated to direct their petitions in favour of those resolutions , and not against the Bill . We may in that case hope to see a auffioient strength in the shape of Parliamentary support
to enable Lord John to carry these resolutions if he be disposed to do so ; while , on the other hand , if they are determined to keep up the yelping of the " pack , " aud to go against the Bill entirely , it is then we think clearly the duty of all rational and moderate men to come at onoe to the aid of Government , and show the tub-thumpers that National Education and universal welfare are not matters to be tamely sacrificed , or lightly thrown into the froth tub of polemical discussion .
Amidst all the hubbub on tbe Eduoation quest ion , tho " pack" contrive always to throw their wee negative on the entire Bill . This we have before asserted , and are still satisfied , arises fro m their objection , not to its educational , but to its r protective ciauses , whioh they lack the courage to atfr ick openly . We hear not a word from them in rer probation of the really iniquitous portion of the Bil ' ^ the lugging into the hell-holes of infants eight years of age . This ought not for an instant to by j tolerated ; the people ought with one voice to rej' Ct this as eagerly
as they receive the real boon - of eduoation . The reopening of the subject , too , should be taken advantage of to remind Govern meat that nearly the entire medical talent of Gre ? ^ Britain , and a great majority of the most estiro able among the clergy , gentlemen , and magistral js , have long since laid before Parliament their solemn asseveration and conviotion that the per mitting of young personaaye , or even of adr ait persons , but especially of young persons , and T ^ ore es pecially young femalesto labour in those r aoral and physical pest-houses fo
so long a period , r # the law now compels from them , is , destructive of their health , morals , and comforts , and tends to a constant depreciation and ultimate abrogation - of all that is great and valuable in society . Tlhese are the real matters to which pubio att ention should be pointed ; these are the things An whioh the Bill seeds amendment ; but these suit not Neddy aud tbe "Pack . " They b'ATeno hope to get rid of the protective clauses contained in the Bill ; no hope to shuffle out of the pains aud penalties threatened to the " Pack" for violation of its necessary and humane provisions . This is the real secret of the " cry" whioh they
have opened , and of their anger at Lord John Res hem . for throwing the "herring" of bis resolutions across tbe " trail . " Nothing could prove more conclusively than does the manner in whioh £ he " pack " treat this seemingly fair and honest attempt of Lord John RussELLto meet all their objections ; that those objections are , as we first pronounced them , perfectly insincere and knavish , and form the index only to a disposition which , were it not placed within wholesome trammels , would rovel heartlessly and joyously in toil and misery , making indifferent merchandise of groans and tears , and blood and bones , and bodies and souls , so that * ' profit" might but result , and the " filthy luore" be hauled in .
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TO MY GOOD FRIENDS IN GARDEN-] STREET , BURY . My Fbiends—I fear there is some misunderstanding : and lest there should be , I trouble you with this explanation ; given here because it would be impossible to write to each , and I am desirous to prevent disappointment or misapprehension by any . Some weeks ago I reoeived a letter from a gentleman in Bury inviting me , on your behalf , to come over at my earliest convenience , and preach two sermons for the anniversary of your Sunday school . This letter , and many others of a like kind , I answered in the Star , fixing Sunday next as the time for my visit-~ - r t ¦ ' 1 1 11 11 iin . ili Mil ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ 11
ing you for that purpose . On Sunday last , while at ! service in Carpenter ' s Hall , a letter from the same gentleman was put into my hands , apprising me that you were not prepared for so early a visit , and that it would oblige greatly if I could delay for a fortnight . I wrote him from Manchester on Monday , in reply , agreeing to do so—asking if the 7 th of May would suit better—and requesting that I might hear from you , fixing a definite tim « , which I would try to suit . I have reoeived no direct answer ; bat I have received a note from Mr . D . xonj of Manchester , stating that a person from Bury { had been at his house , and that the whole
neighbourhood had been posted with . announcements for liny two sermons on Sunday next , the 23 rd inst . Now , all I can say is , that if this statement be correct , I regret it ; because , on receipt of the former letter , requesting me to delay my visit for another fortnight , I made arrangements for being elsewhere on that day , whioh arrangements I cannot now break through . If your . Committee will fix on a precise day when they wish to have me , i and will let me know exactly , I will try to suit their time and to give you such notice as may prevent any further disappointment or annoyance to either you or me .
lam your faithful friend , W . Hill Northern Star , Leeds , Friday , April 21 st , 1843 .
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Aberdeen Chartists . — Mr . Hill will have great pleasure in visiting them at the time he visits Scotland . Will they send the exact address of their Secretary , that he may communicate with him hereafter ? J . P ., Kelsp . —The Chartists of England and Scotland may be all united in one organization and byoneriile ; but we have never yet seen a plan which would effect it . We shall , if no one else does , in all probability yet propose such a plan to them . We have always held it to be a most important i matter for accomplishment . Let us , if possible ^ have but one un ion for the entire king ' dom . The South Shields Canting Tub-thuhpebs . — There can be no doubt that Beedey and Kidd have a good action for false imprisonment and also for assault . They should prosecute by all
means . \ A Democrat , Hindley — We are quite aware ej the grammatical inconsistency referred to by his first question ; but have a reason for persisting in it , sufficiently strong for our own satisfaction , though it is neither necessary nor convenient to assign it \ here . His second question is not stated with sufficient clearness to enable us perfectly to answer it ; as he does net tell us what proficiency he has made in algebra , or whether he knows anything , at all of it or not . If he be , as we suspeel , a working man , with little time for study , and little money to spend on books or' teflchers . and no knowledge at all of the principles of the science , we recommend to him Penning ' a Algebra , price 2 s . 6 d . In answer to various requests , Mr . Ruffey Ridley respectfillly declines lecturing till the re
organization of the Chartist body . Letters for Mrs . Ellis may be addressed as follows : Mrs . Ellis , care of Fletcher Mandley , Commercial-street , Burslem , Staffordshire Potteries . Will some of the secretaries of the associations formed for the purpose of erecting halls for the working classes have the kindness to forward copies of their articles to Robert M' Whinnie No . 2 , James ' s place , Edinburgh ? All communications for the Hull Chartists must in future be , addressed Mr . Wm . Smith , sui-secretary , 8 , Ificar-lane , Hull . Holmfirth . —We know nothing of Mr . Marsden er his tour , j Trades' Unions . —Cost op Strikes . — Will some correspondent who is familiar with the fact send us an estimate of the amount expended in the various strikes that have occurred in
recent years , specifying dales and sums , and all other particulars of circumstance . We wish especially ] for information as to the great Fent Strike at Barnsley among the linen weavers in 1821-2 , and the previous one , a year or two before that , for an advance of wagei : also the Bradford \ Strike of somewhere about that date : and the Leeds Strike of a mire recent period : and the Mason ' s Strike . We wish for full statistical information respecting all these , and any other exhibitions of the power and determination of the people . T . T ., Bolton . —Received : thanks . H ., K . NA . RESB 0 ROUGH . —Receixtd too late . Errata . —In our last , in an article on ihe " Repeal of the Union , " the word London was printed in * stead of Dublin ; and in the same paragraph appeared the word barons instead of barristers .
GRIMSHAW AND Co . —The alteration in thet- adver ? tisement received at this office on Friday morning , was tioo late to be attended to , that portion of our papvr in which it appears having been printed off .
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LEEDS . —Sheriff ' s Court . —On Monday last , J . H . Hill , Esq ., sheriff's assessor , held a court at the Court House , Leeds . There were only four causes entered ] for trial , aud none of them were of any public importance , and only one of them was defended . InjProotor v Appleyard , a verdict was takeu for the ! plaintiff by consent , for £ 2 . 83 . 7 d , the sum claimed . la Cutler v . Read and another , an action for j wages from Cleokheaton . a verdict was returned for the defendant . In Dixon and another v . Elam , whioh was undefended , a verdict was taken for the sum claimed , £ 2 . 16 s . The fourth case , that of Horsfield and another v . Garnett and another , was withdrawn .
Obstructing thb Police . —On Monday last , a man named John Matteer was fined 20 a . and costs , for interfering ] with the polioe , whilst taking into custody a disorderly character named Edwin H p lliday ; the latter was fined 53 . and costs , for being dnuik . ; Stealing Shoes . —On Monday last a man named George Sykesjwas charged at tbe Court House , before . Messrs ! Baines and MuBgrave , with having stolen a pair of men ' s shoes from a stall in Briggate , occupied by Mr . W . Brown , of New Wortley . The prisoner was seen to take the shoes , on Saturday night , during the temporary absence of the prosecutor from the stall , and when apprehended they were found iu bis pocket . He pleaded intoxication , which he said had deprived him of all recollection of the affair . The bench committed him for trial at the next
sessions . j A Disorderly Paupkr . —On Monday , a woman named Charlotte Scarf was brought before the magistrates at the Coun-House , charged with being drunk and disorderly , and with begging on Sunday afternoon . The prisoner , it appears , is aa out-pauper belonging the township of Hunslet , from whence she has received an allowance of 2 s . 6 d . per week ; this besides her earnings , was sufficient to have kept her from begging , but her habits being shown to be very intemperate , and her conduct altogether very bad , she was committed io Wakefield House of Correction for one month .
A Drunken jSpree . —On Monday last , Thomas Fearnley , a horse breaker , from Ossett , was brought before ) the Leeds Magistrates , at the Court House , on a charge of disorderly conduct , in the streets , and furious driving , on Saturday evening last . Fearnley had come to Leeds on a young horse , whioh he was engaged to break in , and whilst here had indulged rather too freely in tho juice of John Barleycorn . He so mismanaged his horse in riding through j the streets that he was thrown off , and great fears were entertained by the market people from his conduct ; some , indeed , had vary narrow escapes ] The police ultimately locked him . np . He was fined 203 , and costs .
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ELECTION OF CHURCHWARDENS . The election of churchwardens for the taei , Parish Church took place at a vestry meeting , yj for the purpose on Thursday last , at noon . ™ The Rev . ihe Vicak took the chair precisely < i twelve o clock , and read the notice by which C meeting had been convened . " ^ Before any fnrther business was proceeded witV Mr . Wm . Brook , tobacconist , Kirkgate , said J , believed there were numbers of workmen who co ( 3 not gain admittance to the vestry , and others tZ had gone to the Court House hi the expectation ty the meeting would be adjourned to that place . £ begged to propose , therefore , that the meeting be aj journed to the Court House . This having been seconded ,
Mr . Thomas Morgan moved , as an amendment that the adjournment be to the Cloth Hall Yaj ? ( Cries of ¦ ¦ * No , no . ") ^ The Ticar—I will put the question of adjotoj , ment first , and determine on th « place afterwards . On a show of bauds being called for , the ai journment was carried , and the Vicar then aj , journed the meeting to the Court House .
ADJOURNED MEETING . The Vicar having taken the chair at the Coqi House , again read the notice by which the meetiJ had been called . ' The Vicar then said , —The Archdeacon harm determined to swear in such Charchwardens as it the chapelriea shall bo elected by ^ h © ministers ajj inhabitants of those chapelries , irrespective of tis meeting , we are assembled'this day merely to a ^ point the wardens the Parish Church . The 0 S 4 of warden in a church is compared to that of a cot stable in civil affairs ; and each warden will barj to appear before the Venerable Archdeacon , asj swear that he will faithfully and diligently discharn
the duties of his office . Among other thing 3 la has to swear that he will keep the church a good repair , preserve its property , and make pr > vision for the servioea . Moreover , he solemn ! ; swears to be present at the services of tlj Parish Church on all Sundays and holidays ; to tab care that no disorder be committed in the ohorei during the time of service ; bat that aU things aq kept orderly and quiet . In the law books it is statj that if ia the regular attendance at church , orj any other particular , the Churchwardens wilful ] fail , they are guilty of a breach of their oath , at { load their souls with the sin of perjury . A& it j clear from this that no conscientious Dissenter fro »
the Church of England can hold th « office of Church warden , if a Dissenter from the Church of Engkiij be elected , he hath liberty by the Aot of Toleration it offer to the Archdeacon a deputy to be sworn foil the said office in bis stead , and to discharge it lig him . This clause was obtained by conscientioq Dissenters in the Toleration Aot , because , withoafi violation 6 f conscience , they declared it to beimposaille to become a Churchwarden . Archdeacon Musgraq desires the Churchwardens , old and new , to w « t upon him , at tbe Royal Hotel , in Leeds , on the 3 ^ of May , at the hour of nine in the forenoon , —tlj old to give in their presentments , and to bring q their terriers ; the new to make their declan tion of conformity to tbe Church and due obedience to its laws , and also to reoeiye from him , their rcfi . gious superior , his instructions and commands , ))
the sworn servants of the Charch . I would recoa . mend the Churchwardens for this year to pay tit expences by subscription among their friends , ui not by a church-rate , as on the subject of caurdrates there is an action now pending . I now so . minate W . Atilthorpe Maude , Esq ., of Kuostrop , toU my Churchwarden for the year ensuing . Mr , Thos . Mobcak said , he had a list to propcej of gentlemen competent to fill the office ofchurdi wardens . He proposed the following list-Mr . Thos . Whitehead , 81 , Darley-street . Mr . Geo . Read , tobacconist , Briggate . Mr . John'Jackson , corn miller , Meadow-lane . Mr . John Barr , printer , Cheapside . Mr . Jos . Saviile , Ryder ' s Buildings , Caatham-st , M .. Wm . Baron , tailor , Plum-street . Mr . Mark Richardson , Beckett-street , Burmaidtofts .
Mr . Richard Brahley said * that in duty to iia church at which he worshipped , he came foiwaxd k propose as churchwardens a list ; of gentlemen cosnetted therewith . He did so because he thoujH that in all reason the duties of . the Parish Churti ought to be carried out by those who conformed t » her doctrines , and who believed in . their validity . Hs therefore begged to propose Mr . F . Pickering , St . Peter ' s-square , gentleman , Mr . George Buhner , Assembly Court , surgeon . Mr . John JNelson , jun ., Briggate , ironmonger . Mr . Thomas Garland , North-street , druggist . Mr . Enoch Hardwick , Buslingthorpe , gentlem Mr . Mark Walker , Byron-street , flax-spionei . Mr . Robert Taylor , Merrion-street , butcher .
Mr . Wm . Brook said ho had a list to . propose fa the office of Churchwarden , and ia the first place ii had to complain of the conduct ot the Whigs on this oeoasion ; they had been trying to sift the Chutist body as to what names they were going to propose for the office of Churchwarden , and had gSM about their business in the most unworthy , meu and sneaking manner , both amongst what thsj called their own friends and also amongst the Chutist ranks . He was about to propose a list , t&i from that list the meeting would see ( the WHfo ) had endeavoured to get one out of it—Mr . JoDfl Jackson ; ior he dare be bound to say that if they had been led by their own ohoiee , and lid no unworthy motive to stimulate them , tluj would not have chosen him , ( Hear . ) But they wanted to divide the Chartist . ranks by professing to put forward one whom they knew was too liberal
by half for them . He hoped , however , the working men of Leeds would stick true to the list which to was about to propose , and show to the Whi ^ stW this time they were not to he led into any colliaoa "We , " said the speaker , despise Whiga-Cohwa . ) There is not a body in existence by whom mhW been half bo much deceived as by them ; but 1 W on this occasion you will show that you haw * proper estimate of their true character , and « nvinoe them that you are no longer to be deetird by them—( cheers . ) I have Mr . James Duftys ' . u my list , and I have been told that they had him ia theirs also . I am not surprised that they aareogji because in the Town Counoil both Whigs asd Bw cats have combined against him to keep him # <» all committees , tbe reason being that he is iso boats for them . " Mr . Brook then proposed the follow * list : —
Mr . John Jackson , corn-miller , Meadow lane-Mr . John Sanderson , cloth dresser , Chatham- ^ Mr . Thomas Clarkson , shoemaker , Central Wket . Mr . John Stubbs , press-setter , Marlborwffi Street . Mr . George Hobson , shopkeeper , Brewery Field . Mr . George Bramham , fl > ur dealer , West-stresi . Mr . James Dufton , broker , St . Peter ' s Square . There being no other propositions , the victim that before proceeding . to put the names to J ™ meeting , he would just state that last year m working classes came to that Hall on a simiw occasion to the present , and there they deterfflfflw upon electing Churchwardens from their ewn Wfr j and this he mast sav . thev were the only bpflf "
Churchwardens he had had , since he came to U&t who had conducted themselves in an hononrw" ) straightforward , and gentlemanly manner . ( Daw " ing cheers . ) They told him at once , on enteringnpffi their office , that on many points they disagreed *»» him , but said that , having taken the office , wJ were determined conscientiously to discharge u * duties . They had done so , and therefore he . « iw not wish for better churchwardens than * "f * rz had had during the last year , except , indeed , would favour him with those who belonged » . »" Parish Church ; and perhaps « of these they w »» give him a few- ( Ories from sonw of the WW ? Never" ) . He might state that he should not p « the names to the meeting in lists ; but eaen . ¦ »« " * separately , as he had been advised it would be mow
regular . ,., The names were then taken , one from eaen »»• and announced by the Chairman , after whicn wr were put separately to the vote . The nantts . *^ prised in Mr . Morgan ' s list , with the excep Hww Mr . Jackson , who was also proposed by Mr . *>"" £ were supported by a few straggling votes , W * »\ ceeding , we think , half a dozsn for any ° ne onn «» l those in Mr . Bramiey ' s list received the TOt ® Li probably fifty ; while for every name P ?^;^ Mr . Brook a whole forest of hands appear 6 ^ , *» they were carried amidst tremendous cbeenng , *» R < jv . Chairman declaring them duly elected , « w •" once dissolving the meeting . . .. v . The decision of the Vjcar seemed to td »»"
Whigs by surprise ; they had come to the mee ^ s "big with speech , " and were sadly disa ppoints ^ having to waste their rhetoric in murmuring KjTl pavement , as they retired to their homes m ^ dudgeon . The Vicar , ho w ever , gained for nm *" the praise of all good men . m , t ^ rpb Mr . Wm . Brook thea proposed , and Mr . J ^ JpN gs seconded , a vote of thanks to the ^ car , ^ biB gentlemanly conduct in the chair . Xosm was carried by acclamation . tt .. t « hffl-The Vicar retnrned thanks , and said that w ever he was called to ft similar post be noP *^ -. should always conduct himself with strict aow » and impartiality . . . ... Md < The meeting then dissolved , the whole pW ings « having only oocupied half an hour ana « minutes .
Disgusting Conduct . —On Monday j ^' t ^ gj . named Peter Scruton , residing in x P ^ t 5 te street , and Harriet , his wife , were brought uR ?^ the Leeds magistrates , at the Court » ° ^! oa former for att assault , with a felonious u ""^ two little girls , of the respective ages of ^ eo a twelve yeara of age ; and the itiMinth vanuL ^ abetting him in his beastly conduct . lu l ? disare unfit for publication . The woman *^ charged , the magistrates seeing that * lI *™ Jfei eL under the influence of her husband . He jvrl iajjl £ 5 , including costs , and , in default of payment to Wakefield for two months .
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TO TH 2 XDII 0 R OJ THB NORTHERN STAR . DEAR Str , —There is now some hope that the agitation for the People's Charter -will , ere long ,, be bronght to & successful dose . A cry is now ^ raised through the land by the woikies for some practical measure to be connected with our movement—something that win , whilst they are Btrufgltog for the Charter , benefit their condition , and prove to tbe Government and those who are opposed to onr principles , that the people have aft las ; arrived to that state of political kaowledfe that they have found out the highway tts&X leads to the eity of freedom , and which it is impossible { ot the Government to block up . The cry is foi the Lxsj > , the I » a 2 « d , SjeiASD ; andV so eager are \ hvj to get it , that it ia sow the only topic -of conversation .
The letters and lecturer of Ur . O'Connor have had a magic effect in producing this mighty change in the public mindj together with the articles and letters " which has of late appeared in that TaluAble organ el the people ' s . Qi& Northers Sl * r . lite question sow is , bow are we to get it ? This question may be answered in many ways ; and bow shcraJd it be alletted out ? Mr . Editor , I would beg leave to suggest one plan , sod leave it in the hands of the people to be improved trpoa . Supposing -we had 100 , 000 Chartists that would subscribe threepence per week . That , 1 believe , would amount to £ 1 , 250 weekly , or £ 65 , 000
annually , for the purpose either of parchasiflg thelami , ortaiingit nponalong lease . We will suppose the latter , that wb take 1000 acres of land upon a lease of ninety years . I would divide ^ 80 acres into small farms of five acres each , that would make 140 *» tttir _ I would build 140 cottages , so that each family might inhabit its own dwelling . I would build a public kitchen and dining-room , so that all the coating might lie performed at once , and by that means save a great smonut-of trouble ; and in order that a brotherly feeling might ba cultivated amongst them , they should all dine together ia one room .
A Bchool and library should- be established , and a fiat-iite teacher or teachers engaged to educate the jjxm&g , asd , at stated times , instruct the adults . A lecture zoom should also be erected , in which lectures should be delivered at certain periods upon different subjects . -The cottages and dining-room should be bo built , ihai the families should in iret vrsather be enabled to so to the dining-room under cover . Kow , to pay the salaries of the schoolmaster * , lecturer * , fcc , the 300 acres that u left from 700 , should be cultivated by tbe 140 farmers upon tha estate Ior nothing , and the produce of the 300 acres should be sold to dear the expenceflabove stated . The society to be enrolled under Act of Parliamtjifc , asd Hie officers to be elected "by the -whole body of subscribers . — The expences fox establishing the farms we ¦ will suppose to be as foDo'srs : —Building 140 cottages , f SO each , £ 8 , 400 ; £ 50 for stocking each farm ,
fce ^ £ 7 , 000 ; £ 4 « for each family to live npon nntil the first crop he produced , £ 5 , 69 *; building dining-room , kitchen , school , and lactore-reom £ 1 . 500 ; library £ 100 . This would amount to £ 22 , 600 . Thus yon see nearly 3 , 109 acres of land could be taken and stocked every year , and 420 families could be amply provided for , and & large jnnnbex ot Chartists employed in the 2 nxQd > ing of cottages , and also the maiting ol furniture , fee .: and in order to take more farms , or to spread the agitation , or raise fonds lor any purpose the society might think fit , each man should psy £ 6 for rent per year , and the first year ' s farms would bring in as rent the xam of £ 3 , 520 . " Bj this means an education would be teenred to the people , their circumstances bettered , labour made more plentiful , a home trade created , and the people in a short time made independent of the white slave-driver vrho has driven thousands to a premature grata .
Sir , if yon think this worthy of insertion , yon "will oblige me by inserting it . I hsvs taken the hint you g&VBlast wetk : I have in somethings been brief : 1 am afraid , been too much bo . I wDl write again in a short time , and Bhow that five acres of land , if properly cultivated , "Rill produce £ 140 worth 6 f provisions upon an average . Toot ' s , W . BSESLET . Newcastle , April 12 , 1843 .
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MR . CLEATE . JOirncAi ncrxHs' defesce and suppobt fund , i 8 d Previously acknowledged 417 5 3 } Greenwich 0 10 0 Silk Weavers , London „ 0 10 0 Islington ... ... 9 5 0 Mr , Edesbury - 0 10 Mr . Judge 0 10 Mr . Wills 0 0 6 Mr . Bell and Friends .. » 0 4 0 Air . T . Llewellan 0 10 H . D . ( Battersea ) 0 0 6 Mrs . WindliB and Female Friends ... 0 5 3 Shoulder of Mutton , Barker Gate ,
Nottingham 17 0 Melton Mowbray 0 5 6 Barnsley 0 18 7 Ackworth 0 12 0 Cawthorn 0 4 0 Southampton ( for Circulars ') 1 0 10 B > Burns and Friends , Newport 0 8 8 J . Lleweliin and Friends , do 0 3 0 J . Williams and Friends , do 0 2 3
£ 424 4 1 U FOB m ' dOUALL , Previously acknowledged ... ... ... 26 12 10 $ Proceeds of a Concert , City , London ... 13 0
FOB MRS . ELLIS . Previously acknowledged .. 25 0 0 Friends , per Mr . Hames , Oojidle 0 8 G £ 25 8 6 CoKREcnoss . —A misprint occurred in the list inserted in last week ' s Star . H was there represented that Mr . Cleave had received from Jt 8 d Rounds and Ringstead 0 0 0 A few Brassfounders ( shopmatea ) Northampton 0 7 6 Edinburgh 0 8 0
Now , these three ( seeming ) items should have been printed as two only . Thus—Rounds and Ringstead , Northampton ... 0 7 6 A few Brassfouuders ( shopmates ) Edinburgh 0 8 0 The mistake occurred from the word w Northampton" having b * en written under " Rin ^ stead , " there not having been sufficient space to write it on the same line . The " sum total" shonld have been £ 417 5 3 . J instead of £ 31753 i *
In the list of sabscription 8 for Mrs . Ellis reverse the sum of three shillings stated to have been received from Marylebone , and seven shillings from Linwood .
The Northern Star. Saturday, April 22, 1843.
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Wm . Car ruth Send their names , and we will not roppJ y them . FOB THE NATIONAL DEFENCB FUND . , £ a . d-Fron ? . the Landlord of Bear-lane Chapel , per F . W , Simeon , Bristol 0 5 0 » . a few friends at Whit wick , per J . Skevington , Looghborough ... 0 4 6 _ a few friends at Haworta , per John Townend ... 0 5 0 „ HuoBlet , per J . Longbottom 0 3 0 POa MR . COCKBOBN , OF NEWCASTLE . From a Chartist , Alfreton -0 16
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 22, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct799/page/4/
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